Senior Manager, Digital Assets

Lloyds Banking Group

. Set strategic direction for Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) oversight of Digital Assets, aligning to Group risk appetite, policy and regulatory expectations.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set strategic direction for Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) oversight of Digital Assets, aligning to Group risk appetite, policy and regulatory expectations.
Lead and coach a specialist team, setting priorities, delivery plans and clear accountability across product, change and BAU activity.
Own delivery of the ECP control framework for Digital Assets (e.g., digital wallets, tokenised deposits, stablecoins), from design through implementation and embedment.
Partner with product, engineering, operations and the Digital Assets Lab to translate economic crime risks into practical requirements (processes, technology, operating model).
Define and oversee financial crime risk assessments across the customer/product lifecycle (AML, sanctions, fraud), including inherent risk, control design and residual risk.
Drive requirements and adoption of monitoring and detection capabilities for blockchain activity, wallet flows and tokenised transactions, including alerting, case management and MI.
Lead engagement with 2LOD ECP, Compliance and other assurance functions to secure challenge, sign-off and evidence of control effectiveness.
Ensure policy, standards and methodologies are updated for Digital Assets (e.g., BECRA/CRA), and that changes are implemented consistently across impacted areas.
Oversee regulatory submissions and responses (where required), ensuring accurate documentation, traceability of decisions and robust control evidence.
Represent the business at relevant governance forums/committees, calling out issues, risks and dependencies and recommending clear actions.
Manage key partner relationships and act as ECP business partner for senior leaders, providing advice on control outcomes, delivery status and residual risks.
Build ECP capability across Digital Finance through training, playbooks and knowledge sharing, ensuring colleagues understand new risks and control requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–10+ years’ experience operating in complex, high‑risk financial services environments
Deep expertise in Economic Crime Prevention, with experience operating in advisory, product or framework‑led roles at scale
Proven senior partnering and influencing across product, engineering, operations and risk, with the ability to drive outcomes in a dynamic and evolving context
Experience designing, implementing and evidencing controls and leading end‑to‑end economic crime risk assessments across fraud and financial crime
Strong understanding of risks and controls across the customer and product lifecycle, particularly AML and sanctions, including regulatory expectations
The ability to work in agile, change environments, translating policy into practical requirements at pace and shaping conceptual risk into effective controls
A proven people leader, with experience developing teams, setting direction and navigating them through growth or change
Experience or knowledge in the evolving Digital Assets space would be advantageous, including blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and tokenisation.
An understanding of Commercial and particularly Markets products
Experience and understanding in payments, settlement and PSO frameworks

Benefits

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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Hard Skills & Tools

Economic Crime Preventionfinancial crime risk assessmentsAMLsanctionsfraudblockchain technologycryptocurrenciestokenisationcontrol designmonitoring and detection capabilities

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingpartneringinfluencingcommunicationstrategic directionteam developmentadaptabilityproblem-solvingknowledge sharing